Letters to the Editor
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David Brooks, David Broder
David Brooks is a neocon horse's ass. I'd love to see him say this about John McCain:
"People want to know if John McCain shares their values. McCain, remember, got rid of his first wife after she was badly injured in an accident. He took up with a mistress--a wealthy one at that!--and later married her. McCain's been a taxpayer-supported D.C. Beltway hack for many years. He's ethically compromised. McCain needs to address these concerns."
Greenwald mentions that David ("Voice of the People") Broder appeared on the same TV show.
Broder just got back from Pennsylvania. Broder is famous for making periodic journeys into the boondocks, where he examines that species known as Joe & Jane Sixpack. Then he heads back to his beloved Beltway to report his findings.
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Heh...
So there was Ayers saying on the day the WTC came crashing to the ground that he not only did not regret planting bombs; he regretted that they didn't plant more.
Nothing Ann Coulter hasn't said and a few more wingnuts, and more recently.
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thank you again
I hope you keep writing the only insightful commentary on the campaign at Salon these days.
--from appreciative reader
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I hope like hell these people don't want a guy like them as president
I can't say if Obama looks down on "regular guys," but I sure do. Ever played a trivia game with one of them? You would think someone with a high school education and an IQ of 85 would avoid trivia games, but nooooo dumb people today aren't smart enough to know that they're dumb. They don't know where countries are, or even that such-and-such a place is a country, much less what happens there.
I don't expect my factory manager father-in-law to have read Dostoevsky, but it would be nice if, when the name came up on the trivia game, he didn't have to sound it out.
Can we please elect a president who has spent more time studying Geography than bowling?
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Another Obama problem
He says 'errr' a lot. Practically ever 6 or 7 words when speaking off the cuff.In fact I think he might clock up more 'errrs' than Bush word for word.
I don't think America can elect a man who says 'err' so much.
It's nancypants European trait.
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run, barack,run
hi glen,
you are the best. please go to the ny times on line archive and read david brooks' op-ed piece from october 19, 2006 and hopefully comment on it.
thanks
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DC
"Wrong again - the windsurfing image was at least as damaging as the hunting image, probably more so. The damage repeatedly and systematically done to Democratic candidates is due to the false millstone of weakness, elitism, and unmanliness hung around their necks by those who often embody those traits themselves."
That last paragraph was pitch perfect Greenwald pastiche. Look, Kerry windsurfed. He happened to look ridiculous when in a wet suit. I don't really see there's anything more to it than that. The national press will have whatever fun there is to be had with a candidate. They've certainly had there's with Bush's malappropisms. Kerry was a rich source of the ridiculous as well.
"This is how Kerry, a certified combat hero in Vietnam, became sullied as the precise opposite - his very credentials as a war hero were dismissed summarily as fruits from the poison tree of manufactured valor - a valor that he had to stage, due to his assumed indecision and weakness."
His combat hero status being sullied was far more to do with the feelings of the young men of the US military he indiscriminately smeared on returning from Vietnam. Not surprisingly, they had objections to him using, as a badge of honour, his service, which he had effecitvely used to gain national prominence by slandering the US military when it suited him.
I can't believe anybody is still hung up on the Kerry candidacy - he was a terrible, terrible candidate. Weird looking, awkward, verbose, pompous, and unable to decide who he wanted to be electorally. Those things matter. They always will in the age of TV and radio. Obama is a much stronger candidate and is no where near John Kerry's level on the mock-o-metre. Most of the doubts circulating Obama are based around the suspicion that he has sympathy with some pretty far-out characters, but it won't be enough to stop him.
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Onward we march...
I don't think America can elect a man who says 'err' so much.
-- Proximity Warning
We'll soon find out! When America elected Bush, she set the lowest standards. Time to set the highest standards again.
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Well....
"We'll soon find out! When America elected Bush, she set the lowest standards."
When the Democrats nominated Kerry they made that low virtually inevitable.
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Kerry and the war
PW: "...His combat hero status being sullied was far more to do with the feelings of the young men of the US military he indiscriminately smeared on returning from Vietnam. ..."
After returning to the United States, John Kerry joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The VVAW was considered by some (especially Richard Nixon) to be an effective part of the antiwar movement. Kerry became the first Vietnam veteran to testify before Congress about the war and he did not lie to Congress.
This is the charge; he told the truth. He did not even tell all the truth. I have members of my own family who saw and also participated in horrible war crimes against innocent women and children, and it was policy. So, are we to hate Kerry for telling us that this country did unspeakable things to rice farmers in order to satisfy LBJ's blood lust and Nixon's fear of being a 'loser'?
Is the Truth un-America?
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@ProxiWar
Thanks for the chuckle! We know you are holding a grudge because we did NOT choose Joe Liebermann as our candidate. You wanted us to look as foolish as you did for 7 1/2 years. For 6 months you thought GWB had it in him. For 6 months you were able to dream. At least you had that. Hang on to the dream. That will keep you warm during the next 32 Dark years.
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Just fine
"Thanks for the chuckle! We know you are holding a grudge because we did NOT choose Joe Liebermann as our candidate."
Not really. Kerry ran a pro-war candidate remember? Liebermann would have been pro-war candidate was wasn't also a ridculous bronzed stick insect. The Republicans can't thank you guys enough for nominating Kerry.
"You wanted us to look as foolish as you did for 7 1/2 years. For 6 months you thought GWB had it in him."
The election wasn't a choice between GWB and a good president. It was a choice between GWB and John Kerry.
"Hang on to the dream. That will keep you warm during the next 32 Dark years."
Everything will be just fine. If anything, I'll be interested to see what happens to the class of professional frothers once Bush and the Rethuglicans are of the picture for a while.